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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • ajayichamber04@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "adeola ajayi" <ajayi_chamber10@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: ajayichamber04@yahoo.fr
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:51:47 +0000
Subject: THANKS AND GOOD BLESS...

Adeola Ajayi Esq,
Solicitor And Investment Consultant,
Lagos,Nigeria.

Attention: Dear Friend,

The inspiration to contact you is simply divine providence,I am making this proposition because I have to seek the partnership of a resource person to help me realise this project.

I am Adeola Ajayi esq a solicitor and investment consultant based in Lagos, Nigeria. I was attending a business luncheon in Berlin,Germany and I got introduced to the renowned businessman and property mogul, Mr Andreas Schranner (of the blessed memory).

He engaged my services as attorney and investment consultant and my primary assignment was to spearhead his investment forays in the Nigeria.Three months later, I invited him to Nigeria and under my professional guidance and based on my advice he made a fixed deposit of FOURTY FOUR
MILLION, TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS (US$44,200,000.00) with security company affiliated with Union Bank of Nigeria.

This deposit was for 12months and upon maturity I made effort to contact my client, I could not reach him or any member of his family.I was forced to travel to germany and there I got the tragic news that on July 25th,2000, my client Mr. Andreas Schranner, his wife maria, their daughter eich and husband christian and their two children perished in the Air France concorde New York bound flight;please click here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
I have made effort to locate any member of his family with strong biological links to my late client without success.

The search to find a close relation is one that has consumed time and resources.The institution is asking me to either present a next of kin to late Andreas Schranner or forfiet the depsosit.

 My proposal to you now is to present you as the next of kin to late  Mr Andreas Schranner and process the deposit and collect the deposits for our mutual benefit.My capacity as solicitor/investment consultant to my late client gives me the discretion to present the next of kin.

I will give you 40% for your effort, 50% for me and 10% for Charity and Kathering Victims. It will amount to injustice if i do not take this decisive step to secure this deposit, and invest it . The late schranner was also a friend in addition to our business relationship.I will wait for your reaction and response and then together we can jump start this project and nurture it to reality.

please reply to my private email: ajayichamber04@yahoo.fr
Your swift response is anticipated.
Yours faithfully
Adeola Ajayi(SAN)
 

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